Optimization of ECG classification by means of feature selection

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2168-2177

  Mar, Tanis ^a,b   Zaunseder, Sebastian ^a,b   Martínez, Juan Pablo ^c,d   Llamedo, Mariano ^c   Poll, Rdiger ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PHOTONIC MICROSYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI); classification; ECG; feature selection (FS); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); multilayer perceptron (MLP); sequential forward floating search (SFFS)

Indexed keywords

FEATURE SELECTION (FS); LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON (MLP); SEQUENTIAL FORWARD FLOATING SEARCH (SFFS);

ALGORITHMS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; INSTRUMENTS; MULTILAYERS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79960710929     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2113395     Document Type: Article

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